Occupied London on tour in North America, starting this week
The editors of AK’s brand-new collaboration with Occupied London, Revolt and Crisis in Greece, are touring the United States and British Columbia in April to promote the book’s impending release and share stories and struggles from Greece … and it starts tonight, in the New York, at Semi-Legit Autonomous Space in Brooklyn. Tomorrow, editor Antonis Vradis heads to Baltimore to speak at The 2640 Space (run by Red Emma’s) on April 5, and Dimitris Dalakoglou remains behind in NYC for an event at CUNY on April 6. Plus, a last-minute Philly event has been added to the East Coast schedule: LAVA Space on April 6.
After that, our friends head to the other coast to hit the SF Bay, Modesto, Olympia, Portland, Seattle, and up to Vancouver. Check out the full schedule:
April 4, 2011 – New York, NY, 6 Charles Pl. Brooklyn, 7.30 pm April 5, 2011 – Baltimore, MD, The 2640 Space, 7 pm April 6, 2011 – New York, NY, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY, 4 pm April 6, 2011 – Philadelphia, PA, LAVA, 7 pm April 7, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, Station 40, 7 pm April 9, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Anarchist bookfair, 4pm April 10, 2011 – Berkeley, CA, BASTARD Conference April 12, 2011 – Modesto, CA, Firehouse Social Center, 7 pm April 15, 2011 – Olympia, WA, Sabot Infosquat, Evergreen State College April 16, 2011 – Portland, OR, Law and Disorder Conference April 18, 2011 – Seattle, WA, Autonomia Social Center, 7 pm April 20, 2011 – Vancouver, BC, Joe’s Café, 1150 Commercial Drive, 8pm
And the description of their presentation below. Please forward widely! This has all been arranged on a very short timescale, so Antonis & Dimitris – and all of the spaces hosting them – really need your help to get the word out!
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Occupied London presents: Revolt & Crisis in Greece
Reflections on the December Insurrection, the Economic Crisis, and Ongoing Struggles in Greece and beyond…
A multimedia presentation and discussion
Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. Since the Greek Insurrection of December 2008 the OL blog has been an important source of English language updates from the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities across the country.
This event is part of a US tour celebrating the release of Occupied London’s latest project: a book titled ‘Between a Present Yet to Go and a Future Yet to Come: Revolt and Crisis in Greece‘, published by AK Press.
Taking some of the themes emerging from the book’s twenty chapters as a starting point, they will be discussing trajectories of struggle and resistance in recent years, the current economic reality in Greece defined by austerity, ways in which people are affected on an everyday level, and emergent potentialities for struggle.
Dimitris and Antonis are researchers and writers studying Greece and share their time between there and the UK. Dimitris works on the materialities of social change in the Balkans and Greece; Antonis researches the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia and its concentration of riots in Greece’s post-dictatorial period.